Synonyms of the word

divination

• n. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
• n. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
• n. (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

forecasting

• v. present participle of forecast.
• n. A forecast or prediction.

foretelling

• v. present participle of foretell.
• n. prediction.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

hypothesis

• n. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem…
• n. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
• n. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

prediction

• n. A statement of what will happen in the future.
• n. A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

prognostication

• n. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.

prophecy

• n. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
• v. Dated form of prophesy.

soothsaying

• n. A method of foretelling the future.

speculation

• n. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
• n. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
• n. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
• n. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal…
• n. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price,…
• n. Examination by the eye; view.
• n. (obsolete) Power of sight.
• n. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting…

supposition

• n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• n. The act or an instance of supposing.

surmisal

• n. surmise.

surmise

• n. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
• n. Reflection; thought; posit.
• v. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

vaticination

• n. Prediction, prophecy.